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IT disaster on the horizon? We can help.Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:17:14 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1Comment on Pattern: The Never-Ending Story by Google Fiber bait-and-switch: buyer beware : And Still I Persist…http://bfwa.com/2007/12/07/pattern-the-never-ending-story/comment-page-1/#comment-2327
Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:17:14 +0000http://bfwa.com/2007/12/07/pattern-the-never-ending-story/#comment-2327[…] as an expert witness in civil litigation — is how IT projects go bad. This series of slips is a classic pattern and not a very promising […]
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Tue, 19 Nov 2013 16:07:51 +0000http://bfwa.com/?p=414#comment-244[…] Director of Quality Assurance. This person is responsible for the full range of quality assurance activities that surround the project. More importantly, she is the gatekeeper, the one — and the only one — who allows the system under development to move into alpha, beta, candidate, and deployment stages. […]
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Thu, 14 Nov 2013 03:36:25 +0000http://bfwa.com/recommended-readings/#comment-243[…] so many failing and failed IT projects myself — and because I have studied so many of those who have written on this subject — that I know all the root causes and telling […]
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Tue, 05 Nov 2013 17:27:42 +0000http://bfwa.com/?p=342#comment-242[…] written twice before (here and here) about the severe problems with the British government’s Universal Credit project. From my […]
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Tue, 05 Nov 2013 17:27:12 +0000http://bfwa.com/?p=315#comment-241[…] written twice before (here and here) about the severe problems with the British government’s Universal Credit project. […]
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Mon, 28 Oct 2013 14:55:18 +0000http://bfwa.com/2007/12/07/pattern-the-never-ending-story/#comment-238[…] you can classify the fact pattern as “Faulty Towers” (if in production) or as “The Never-Ending Story” (if not in production), or sometimes a blend of the two (if in production, but so bad as to […]
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Mon, 28 Oct 2013 14:54:20 +0000http://bfwa.com/2007/12/07/pattern-faulty-towers/#comment-237[…] on whether the system has actually been deployed, you can classify the fact pattern as “Faulty Towers” (if in production) or as “The Never-Ending Story” (if not in production), or […]
]]>Comment on An approach to software release by Obamacare and the Long Bomb : And Still I Persist…http://bfwa.com/2013/10/10/an-approach-to-software-release/comment-page-1/#comment-235
Sat, 26 Oct 2013 16:08:20 +0000http://bfwa.com/?p=414#comment-235[…] findings were not good news for the client. Because the client had done such an atrocious job on quality assurance (sound familiar yet?), and because the project had been been divided up among so many different […]
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Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:44:53 +0000http://bfwa.com/?p=414#comment-232[…] this is why — as I discuss in this extract from a document I wrote 15 years ago about software quality assurance – you need to have strict controls on what changes are allowed to be made to the source […]
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Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:37:11 +0000http://bfwa.com/?p=315#comment-231[…] failed or troubled projects occur in state and federal government agencies (cf. here, here, and here for very recent examples). Even (or especially) in those cases when the bulk of development is […]
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